This capable artist is well deserving of attention for her meticulously conceived and craftedabstract wall and floor hugging sculptures. Fortunately Caprice was in attendance at heropening since she is so articulate in sharing her art-making from all angles; it made hershow even more enjoyable. Also, this Houston’s gallery new space in Dallas definitelydeserves serious consideration by the art crowd.

Caprice received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburghand her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York – both excellent schools. Since 1996she has been an instructor of sculpture and life drawing at Austin Community College.

Her comments began with telling us about the multiple undulating linear forms in frontof the audience creating delicate, flowing and sensuous movement and shadow. Itshows why Caprice credits the images she continues to reuse to her mother’s and herown past careers as weavers. While she builds her sculptures she envisions herself inthe act of weaving the wood.

“Red Sangria Cascade” 5 x 6 x 1 feet

“Red Sangria Cascade” detail

. Wood is the material a loom is made of which naturally led to her favorite medium outof which to make her constructions. Comparable to weaving, her forms are planned to interlock, interact and repeat; she works on a curvaceous imaginative grid, quite distinctfrom a loom.

“Undulating” 7” x 8 x 6 x1 feet

“I am drawn to natural forms: earth erosion, Cal trite in cave formations, wind on desert sands, artichokes cut in half. Detritus of manmade objects are also appealing: such as old refrigerator grates, cracks, and scratches on metal or in cement, squashed recycled cardboard.” After careful study of each artwork one can see the sources of the ideas in her head but hearing some of them identified in the artist’s words simplifies matters.